Mervyn Napier Waller CMG OBE was an Australian muralist, mosaicist and painter in stained glass and other media. He is perhaps best known for the mosaics and stained glass for the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, completed in 1958. However, Melbourne has been described as "a gallery of Napier Waller’s work", as eleven monumental murals by Waller are on display in the central business district and at the University of Melbourne’s main campus.
Napier Waller in 1919
Studio portrait of 20178 Private (later Bombardier (Bdr)) Mervyn Napier Waller, of Hawthorn, Vic
A Napier Waller mural in the Melbourne Town Hall Auditorium beside the proscenium arch, photographed in c.1940
c.1920 photograph of Christian and Napier Waller with fruit tree. Card inscribed "On Our selection" under image, and on front: "Best Wishes to J. B. Trinick". Courtesy University of Melbourne Archives
The Australian War Memorial (AWM) is a national war memorial and museum dedicated to all Australians who died during war. The AWM is located in Campbell, a suburb of the Australian capital of Canberra. The grounds include five buildings and a sculpture garden. Most of the museum galleries and commemorative areas are contained in the Memorial Building.
The Memorial Building from the central precinct of the Australian War Memorial, 2015
The Memorial Building under construction, 1937
Painting of the Australian War Memorial in 1946, several years after it was opened to the public.
Queen Elizabeth II, being guided around AWM by Charles Bean, with The Duke of Edinburgh behind them naval uniform, February 1954.
